Anonymous asked: On TV Tropes there's mention of a comics where Gladstone saves Donald from drowning and I wonder if you'd heard of it? According to the page it's called "Donald's Lucky Day", but I've only found the 1939 cartoon under that name (which is really cute, btw, but no Gladstone).
I stg everyone who’s been on the Gladstone tvtropes page asks this question- including me! XD I haven’t found a readable comic version (untranslated or translated) but this might be the one? I don’t know for sure though. Searching on I.N.D.U.C.K.S. for that title brings up these results but there are an awful lot I haven’t read!
Oh, I know the comic - I have it. \^w^/ It’s called “Kalles Turdag” (Donald’s Lucky Day) in Swedish. :)
I don’t know how to add pictures to a post I reblog, but if someone can send me a message on how to do it, then I can reblog this post again with the pictures of Gladstone saving Donald from drowning. :)
(I don’t have a working scanner though, so I’ll have to take photos of the pages, just so you guys know).
Thank you for the note explaning what to do, @modmad - hopefully this will work now! \^w^/
Okay, for everyone then: To understand these pages better, Donald found a five-clover wish gave him luck, but in turn it unknowingly also took away Gladstone’s luck. Escaping the city they believed had gone crazy, they fell asleep together below a bridge. Donald, deciding he has had enouh of the crazy good luck, gave his five-clover to Gladstone to even it out a little before they fell asleep. (Donald hadn’t connected everything to the clover and his wish for good luck at this point).
Since my version of the comic is in Swedish I figured I should translate it for you guys too. :)
| G: Gladstone | D: Donald | [xxxx] : The yellow box. |
Page 01, Pic 01. G: “Thank you cousin! Perhaps my bad luck will turn around again.” D: “It was no problem.” G: “I wish I had luck again.” D: “And now we try to sleep!”
Pic 02: G: “ZzZ… Wish… luck… back…” D: “ZzZ”
Pic 03: [Next Morning] D: “Yawn” D: “What now… I’m outside!? Are we camping, or?”
Pic 04: D: “No, nonsense… I hate camping!” D: “…Where is my car?”
Pic 02: G: “(You) should never swim if you’re not AWAKE! It’s dangerous, Donald!”
Pic 03: G: “What were you thinking?” D: “Blutt.” <– (I have no idea what that would translate to. I think it’s just supposed to be a sound of Donald spitting(?) out the water).
Pic 04: - Gladstone dropped the clover.
Pic 05: D: “?” G: “?”
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I hope this was to some help for you guys! \^w^/
If you want to I can add all of the pages in a new post later, but that will have to wait until after my errands in that case. :)
Btw, this comic was from the Donald Duck pocket book nr.354 (in Sweden), and is named “Kalles Turdag” (”Donald’s lucky Day”). :)
just a head’s up that I’m sick so I won’t be able to make much of anything new- I’ll try really hard to update TPoH on time but please forgive me if it’s late ;__;
anyway here’s a concept sketch from the Sorceress’s Apprentice when I was brain storming- in this version Magica had a secret library carved out of the volcano underneath her hut which she shows Gladstone when he finishes tidying/shows an interest in studying. Cut the idea because it was derailing the story and felt like I was toying with the canon too much :S
queenburd asked: hey Mod!! seeing as ur my number one source for gladstone content, I was wondering if you knew if Gladstone (Or any of the cast! Its been a REALLY long time since I watched Ducktales) played instruments in canon? (as opposed to hitting some random notes and it coming out great GLADSTONE) also, I was wondering if your latest comic was in the same continuity as the other Magica/Gladstone comics you made, or just the canon comics. Thanks!
Sure! Gladstone is canonically claimed to be the ‘champion ukulele player of Duckburg’ in one of Carl Barks’ comics, Good Canoes and Bad Canoes-
as for the continuity of my comics, I guess I try to write them so they can either be stand alone or linked to one another- the canon comics sort of have the rule that everything gets set back to a certain default. Even if the ducks have gradually evolved and had character development, there are never any huge shifts; Donald never marries Daisy, Gyro never dies from blowing himself up, and none of them age! Imagine how weird it would be if they did? So yeah, I go from the same perspective- namely, Gladstone and Magica will always be the characters they are recognized to be at the beginning (and in some way the end) of the doodle comics I write; whether or not the previous doodle comics ‘have happened’ to them is up to you as the reader!
Part two of two! Honestly this was a really great exercise in posing, I had a great time drawing it. Thanks again for all the swell comments and hilarious tags you guys always make my day! <3
Anonymous asked: re-read that "sorcereress's apprentice" and have a few questions! first- is that bit with Scrooge talking about scaling stormy mountains and making wonderful mistakes in the beginning foreshadowing? and second- that list of things that Gladstone says he's summoned, I recognise the tidal wave and the tornado, but did he really summon a meteor in the comics?
hehe! thanks for noticing that foreshadowing, it was definitely on purpose, and yes! he actually causes a meteor to fall in more than one story (there’s one where he’s conned by Donald into buying land that has no gemstones, and a meteor made of diamonds falls right onto his patch), and there’s this Carl Barks classic where he’s got to boil a pint of water in as short a time as possible;
there’s a couple of stories featuring him and shooting stars/meteors, which I guess figures, what with the whole wishing thing
MORE ALL CAPS please consider using the above link! tumblr keeps deleting bits of these comics for no reason whatsoever and I can’t keep track of it.
By request (and because I ought to have made one already tbh) a masterpost of all the duck comics I’ve drawn! I’ll add to this list whenever I make a new one so it’s gonna be in chronological order so uhhhh the BETTER DRAWINGS ARE PROLLY IN THE LATER ONES ‘cause they’re the most recent??? ye:
“..And if I wasn’t calm and used my head, things coulda turned out differently. And of course, you know I don’t heed any danger!”
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The reason I find this scene adorable is that Gladstone’s excitement over having an ‘adventure’ is real, and he feels he came out victorious from it, despite us knowing he did literally nothing to earn that feeling.
Of course, this is also the reason he comes across to everyone as arrogant.
Plus Gladstone is the only Duck who’d look so excited about almost being robbed/murdered.
